Vanilla Tea: Recipe & Benefits

Drinking vanillatea is an excellent way to relax your body and mind, and enjoy a number of other health benefits as well.

What is Vanilla Tea?

Vanilla tea, or vanilla chai tea, is an herbal tea brewed with vanilla beans or vanilla extract, along with black, white or orange pekoe teas, among others. Depending on your method of brewing this tea, you may have a higher sugar content in the sweet beverage, but the best way to brew the tea is with fresh vanilla beans. Synthetic vanilla flavorings won’t deliver the same nutritional benefits. Vanilla tea can be served either hot or cold and is consumed around the world, particularly as a stress-relieving brew.

Benefits

There are quite a few benefits to vanilla tea, including its ability to kickstart the metabolism and improve gastrointestinal health, due to its active ingredientvanillin, as well as other antioxidants, in both the tea and the vanilla beans. This tea naturally lowers stress hormone levels and improves mood while calming the nervous system and aiding in healthy sleep.

Side Effects

The side effects of drinking vanilla chai tea include side effects from consumingcaffeine, such as tiredness, fatigue, and irritability, at least once the caffeine has worn off.

Pregnant women are not advised to consume this tea, as caffeine is not recommended for pregnant or nursing mothers.

Some people are allergic to vanilla and its byproducts, but this allergy isn’t overly common.

How to Make Vanilla Tea

If you want to make vanilla tea, you can brew it with actual vanilla beans or by adding a few drops of vanilla extract into a normal cup of tea. This recipe is for the former, more natural approach to brewing this vanilla chai tea.

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